My band is made up of any professional musician with a good spirit, that can bring their own excellence to what I'm trying to express. Though I'm loyal to the folks I work with the most, I'm open to life's inevitable changing hand. Bernard Wright and Rachella Parks-Washington are two musicians that God chose to guide me as needed.
Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horne, Bobby Blue Bland, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Earth Wind & Fire, Sam Cooke, Luther Vandross, Earl Turner, Barbara Streisand, Al Green, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Ceasar, The Bee Gees, Lionel Richie, The Ojays, The Temptations, Queen, ABBA, The Neville Brothers, Professor Longhair, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, Betty Wright, Marvin Gaye, Luciano Pavarotti, My daddy Howard and brother Andre.. - for World Known Stylings.
Rachella Parks-Washington, Bernard Wright, Kent Ellingson, Byron Parks, Wade Cottingham, Paul Salos, Julie Bonk, Robin Hackett, Freddie Jones, Malcolm Robinson, Dwayne Haggar, Mike Medina - for Valuable Insight and Support with Music in General.
AND, Al Olive, Jim Casey, Lorna Tate, Ray Hair, Darwin Martin, Rick Rigsby, Fritz Martin, Mary Kimbute', Sandrakaye...REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES!!!
If you are interested in my musical accomplishment…go to www.breggettrideau.com check out some cool stuff. If you want to know about me…, here we go. I am a New Orleans (born and raised) girl and I am proud of my heritage. I am proud in spite of the picture that “Katrina” paints of New Orleans people. I love the Saints and I am an LSU Alumni. I love having a distinctive New Orleans accent. I find it rich and unique. I love Second Line and Zydeco music. I love the Neville Brothers, Charmaine Neville, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton (composer), Buddy Bolden (raggin’), Dr. John, Harry Connick Jr., Professor Longhair, etc. Matchless is the New Orleans sound. This is simply because of the complexity of its Haitian, French, Cuban, African, Native American, White American and European mixes. Les Gens De Couleur Libres...The Free People of Color in New Orleans.... Today, commonly known as "Creoles" or "Creoles of Color" contributed greatly to the city’s unique personality. New Orleans is the melting pot of sound. I LOVE STRAIGHT AHEAD JAZZ!!! I am fed up with the constant pull to smooth jazz, R&B, neo soul, and hip-hop, in order to be considered valid. All of these genres are fantastic in their own right, but they stem from JAZZ, which stems from the blues. Why are we like this…the creators of a thing with no staying power? We move on as soon as we think someone else has copied our creation. They get the credit and we make our way on to something else, to be stolen and profited from by others. I fight hard to keep true to that that I love the most, though I do not always win. I still like to swing a song. I live for bossa novas. What is so wrong with that? I have been told that I am too young to sing that style, and that I will never make it “BIG” singing old style jazz. I guess I will not then. It is up to God anyway, as far as I am concerned. Bernard Wright said, “Sing what you believe and what you love and the audience will believe and love it too”. Rachella Parks-Washington advised, “Do what is honest at the time and you will always give your best…at that time.” I think that is true for me. Yet, I find it hard to find musicians that believe as I do. I find this true mostly in African American musicians more than white musicians. How did this happen? The Blues (the 1st American form of music) is where Jazz emerged from; therefore, I must speak on the “Blues” just a little. West Africans brought to America and enslaved used call-and-response forms of field hollers, cadences and other “negro” work songs as a coping mechanism, if you will. Once freed, the ex-slaves from the Mississippi Delta turned this “survival technique” into what is known today as the Blues. The “call” then came from the guitar and voice “responded” or vice versa. Blues is the foundation of jazz as well as the prime source of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, gospel and country music. Jazz is the 1st American form of music that became popular worldwide. Therefore, I ask, how can we call “straight ahead” jazz obsolete? If the blues is not, then how is this so? If country still has a twang then why can’t we swing? Why are Diana Krall and Joss Stone, who are truly awesome, getting Grammy awards when Nancy Wilson and Gladys Knight can’t get an invite to perform at them? Why does age mean the end when you still have the gift? It makes the older resent the younger and the younger disrespect the stylings of the older. That can be HELL, trust ME when I tell ya. Why is beauty more important than talent today? Thank god, it was not like that when Diana, Patty, Martha, Mary, BB, Buddy, Ray, Bobby and Ella started out. We would be screwed musically for sure. PEACE!
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Thank you in advance for your support and encouragement. The book that God has tasked me with completing, Carnal Striving Spiritual, is now available for secure purchase from my website - www.AnthonyJerrod.com, as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The already critically-acclaimed book is being endorsed by very prominent scholars, pastors and authors and has been reviewed as one of the best Christian books of 2009.
Your help in advancing the Kingdom of God is appreciated. May you and yours have a wonderful day, and I hope that you will find something in the book that will bless you and/or help to improve your Christian walk.
Ciao,Breggett Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, Band, and stupendous voice. compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, be really one whom is worth rather a lot! I hope to listen soon to you, in italy .. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music all the best.. from italy.. and good life.. every day neal
Hey! Mom and I want to take you to lunch before you leave. We leave for LA on the 31st so let us know when you are free. "Now" is being released on September 15th check out the cover!!!
Oh good, I'm actually in Austin visiting CC's sis, Khamille, so we have been hangin out, partying it up, first time here, having a blast!!! hope to see you soon! xoxo
Hey Breggett, what up! Im so bored outta my mind, ugh. Gfield went to New Orleans lastnight with CC, so they over their gettin their party on, I think I'ma head to Austin this weekend to visit my girl. Anywho, good to see this last weekend, enjoy the upcomin one, ttyl- luv ya!
Hello Breggett Thank you for being a positive force in this world. Music is one of the few things left that still has the power to bring people from different cultures together in harmony. Always feel free to contact me.
